What a week of flying!  Late last week the Lake turned it on a few days in a row!  Thursday saw 9 hangies up and Friday saw similar numbers.  Friday night saw the T’man celebrate his birthday with a good gathering at his place.  Trent is turning his house into a hang glider pilot retreat as he has kindly installed beer on tap!!!  Now all he needs is a runway and we are set!

Today saw Dave, Karl, Quadey and myself fly the lake in ESE if not occasionally SE winds.  I managed to score 2 hours which was pretty cool and interesting.  After playing around at the first rest stop we all headed back over launch and Dave screamed across the gap to the south ridge in his new glider.  He top landed and I gave the gap a bash but got to low and had to land out.  I was annoyed to say the least, so packed my glider up and walked the girl all the way back up to the top of the south ridge set up and took off again on what could be a first (to walk their glider up the ridge!).  I took off, gained some height and jumped across the gap for a top landing with the other boys at the cars.  Dedication – Yes I think so.

The Canberra boys are new glider crazy it seems.  Trent Dave and Nath picked up their new Airborne C4’s last week and Dave had his out today.  Dave has purchased himself the 13.5 and seems to be very happy to say the least.  Flying above and below him today was pretty cool as his glider has a bit of character to it.  Dave has opted for a unique colour scheme of white on top and pure black underneath.  I think we will have to call him the Bat from now on!  I too have a new glider on the way.  I had a squiz at Ariborne’s website this morning and noticed that there was a String III 154 in stock in the exact colour scheme that I am after.  So straight on the phone to Trent and within 15 minutes I get a call back to say its mine!  My only dilemma now is to work out when to head up to the factory to pick her up!!!  Life is hard.

See you all up in the sky…

Andrew >:-)